STAY WELL

Wellness is a word associated with so many things it is confounded with a to-do list a mile long. Eat right, bathe, brush your teeth, watch your blood pressure, get your heart rate up higher. While it is important to meet the new demands to keep your distance and wash your hands, it’s also worth noticing that sometimes the best thing we can do to stay well is find equanimity, Upeksanam.

Consider the dualities that are coming up for you during this time. The need to do something versus the need to be still. The need to be seen versus the need to be safe. The need to have versus your ability to give. How can you find upeksanam or equilibrium within these dualities?

The pulls on our energy have been a constant - do this, pick up that, meet him or her for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and stay informed. Take this time to notice how easily you get taken away from yourself. Diverted to a news story or Facebook post. The barrage of diversions pull us outside of the vessel of our body. Awareness of what pulls and pushes our energy is the beginning of learning to contain ourself within our body

The practice of Iyengar Yoga is a sequential method of clearing away the unnecessary diversions, bringing optimal conditioning to our skin, muscles, organs, bones, and nerves to enable us to be still and contained no matter what is going on around us.

If you can, please support your local Iyengar Yoga community. Click here to support your local studio in The Southeast. Let #Iyengaryoga help you stay well and contained during this time of change.

Health and wellbeing to you all.

Namaste.